title: Report on three species of Plesionika (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pandalidae) from the East China Sea.
abstract: The Plesionika material, collected by the National Comprehensive Oceanography Survey from the East China Sea in 1959, has been found to contain three species: P. izumiae Omori, 1971, P. marita orientalis Chace, 1985, and P. ortmanni Doflein, 1902. The ranges, population numbers, population density, and ratios of males, non-ovigerous females and ovigerous females of P. izumiae were found to vary seasonally.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
authors.forename: Xinzheng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li